PLANETDAMAGE

Egyszer el kell oda érkezni, hogy lezárjuk, ami nem működik, ne vonjon el több energiát, töltődjön át inkább olyan helyekre a reserve energy, ahova tényleg kell. Ennek jött most el az ideje. (Lehetett tudni ezt régóta, nekem kell az, hogy mindenkinek kimondjam.) A THE DOSE magazint hivatalosan lezártam, nincs rá időm, energiám és kedvem hiába lenne, hosszú távon non-profitban megcsinálni értelmetlen. Rengeteg jó anyag gyűlt össze ebben a három számban is, büszke is vagyok rá, köszönöm is minden érintettnek, aki közreműködött benne és a részese volt. Lesz helyette más.

To all those who don’t dig Hungarian: I’ve declared the magazine dormant due to a lack of time.

If you were really into MySpace and how industrial/cyberpunk bands started making friends on community sites some two years ago, THE DOSE might ring a bell. It was a free PDF magazine (that I designed to be print-ready just in case I got the possibility to make it into a commercial venture that I failed miserably, but anyways) focusing on a single city in every issue, showing all the interesting music, bands, DJs, pieces of art that we thought would be fascinating for you. I learned how to do proper DTP and layout with the mag. I also came to know excellent people and musicians, made the magazine count at a few places. I made three issues (Budapest, Tokyo, London, consecutively) and then I became a full-time journalist and decided I didn’t have the time to continue this project anymore, because, let’s face it, the majority of the work was done by me. (This is how I get good results. But I digress.)

So now I declare extended hiatus and also upload the previous issues to Scribd. Share the love, download the mag, contact the bands and also drop me an email to planetdamage at gmail if you think this idea is good enough to monetize. Or tell me you love the mag and break my fucking heart in two.The Dose website is in a state of death and dismay, by the way.

A microdot is text or an image substantially reduced in size onto a 1mm disc to prevent detection by unintended recipients. (…) Historically, LSD solutions were first sold on sugar cubes, but practical considerations forced a change to tablet form. Early pills or tabs were flattened on both ends and identified by color: “gray flat”, “blue flat”, and so forth. Next came “domes”, which were rounded on one end, then “double domes” rounded on both ends, and finally small tablets known as “microdots“. (source: wikipedia)

Tökéletes példája az oldschool, alagútban fejjel előre zuhanó goa-tekerések középszintjének, a demót eredetileg XBOX360-ra gyártotta a Synesthetics (STS), második helyezést ért el a tavalyi Assembly-n a combined demo versenyen. (via pouet)

Australian-cum-Londonese cyberpunk metal band (and sages of rock) NEW PROJECT are out with their PV “Coma” that’s from their new album Ultraviolent Light. I’ll review the album a bit later, I just have to add that all the CG stuff you see comes from Chaos Theory, the legendary 64k demo by Hungarian demoscene group Conspiracy. The results rock and that’s good (also because I tend to whimp away at how Chaos Theory ended up on the Ghost in the Shell DVD), CNS really, really needs to make a few more promotional videos for CP bands.

New priority.
Connect the dots.

Csak bekerült a Conspiracy a Kultúrházba (még mindig örülök, hogy Johanna nem a békéscsabai nekromaszturbálás miatt hívott fel), leszámítva az enyhe feszengést, ami átjárja a műsorral kapcsolatba került összes munkatársat és meghívottat (”senki sem fog érteni, ha elengedem magam”, “senki sem fogja érteni, ha elengedi magát”, “hogy tálaljuk, hogy még érdekes is legyen”, “láttak már ezek lovat? élőt? élő lovat?”), egészen korrekt lett. Hétvégén Function.